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Heifer International announced last Friday that it is now accepting bitcoins for donation. The Arkansas-based nonprofit organization, which provides gifts of livestock and agricultural training to combat world hunger and poverty, has partnered with bitcoin payment processor...

On August 19, San Francisco-based startup ChangeTip teamed up with Direct Relief to launch an eight-day fundraising campaign whose goal is to prevent deaths from pregnancy and childbirth complications, one of which takes place in a developing nation every two minutes, reported...

Republican Senator Rand Paul announced Tuesday his 2016 U.S. presidential bid, and he is accepting Bitcoin donations to support his campaign. Reuters reported that the acceptance of Bitcoin donations “reflects the Kentucky senator’s tendency to embrace new technology, his...

BitPay announced Monday it has added a NationBuilder website plug-in that allows communities to easily accept Bitcoin donations. Described on its website as “the world’s first operating system for community,” the Los Angeles-based NationBuilder combines a website platform,...

BitPay announced Wednesday it is supporting the American Red Cross by helping the humanitarian organization accept Bitcoin donations through a BitPay-hosted Web page. The company will process Bitcoin donations without any fees so that the Red Cross will receive 100 percent of the...

In late August, British Columbia-based Simon Fraser University (SFU) announced it had become the first Canadian higher-education institution to accept donations in Bitcoin. SFU’s first Bitcoin donors were alumnus Scott Nelson, who is the chief technology officer of crowdfunding...

The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver-based weekly newspaper, reports that Nola Western, the deputy chief electoral officer for funding and disclosure for Elections BC, has confirmed that candidates and parties in November’s municipal elections in the Canadian province can legally...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that sponsors internet institutions like Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wiki-quotes, began accepting Bitcoin donations via Coinbase in late July, a little more than one week ago. During the first week, Coinbase has now announced,...

On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization responsible for Wikipedia, announced that it will accept donations in the form of Bitcoin. Lisa Seitz Gruwell, the foundation’s chief revenue officer, stated in a Wikimedia blog post that members of its...

Strictly speaking, there’s nothing Libertarian about Bitcoin, in the same way that, strictly speaking, there’s nothing American about baseball and apple pie. That said, the two do seem to attract much of the same audience and serve many of the same goals: Offering...